Paragon Application Systems Extends Capabilities of Web FASTest

ePayments testing solution drives the testing revolution helping
leading brands meet the demands of consumers for more payment types and
always on capability

October 13, 2016 07:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paragon
Application Systems, the leading independent testing services
provider for the financial services industry, today announced the latest
version of its Web FASTest solution. These enhancements expand the
automation and configurability of the product, allowing financial
services companies to test more code in less time. Organizations using
the solution reduce overhead associated with desktop testing and can
optimize the skills of their available resources.

The secure, cloud-based solution, introduced one year ago, was built to
accommodate the increased complexity and risk that financial services
providers are facing in their mission to future-proof their payments
systems. Web FASTest provides a testing platform for simulation and
validation for ISO based payments schemes as well as next generation
transactions. With the latest release of Web FASTest, organizations may
quickly adapt to rapidly changing API standards as they implement new
digital payments strategies, while ensuring the integrity of their core
payments systems.

Web FASTest allows a test engineer to build functional tests and execute
them through a secure performance test engine. This provides real-time
updates that automatically configure each connection, further enhancing
efficiencies. The APIs used in the solution eliminate the time and
hassle of exhaustive manual searches. Users can also automatically
customize test cards, empowering them to better tailor Web FASTest for
their organization’s unique needs.

Users can choose to deploy Web FASTest in a multi-tenant test cloud
environment, providing the flexibility of on-demand testing across
multiple sites for multiple users. This testing as a service (TaaS)
offering delivers a continuously updated platform with access to
numerous financial message formats, giving users the freedom to securely
test whenever and where is most convenient. The solution can also be
deployed onsite for those organizations who have testing needs that are
continuous.

“As new payment methods and avenues are added by the day and the overall
payments infrastructure becomes increasingly complex and sophisticated,
our testing methods must concurrently evolve to ensure the end customer
can consistently and reliably complete secure, successful transactions,”
said Jim Perry, CEO of Paragon. “With the latest enhancements to Web
FASTest, we deliver more automation, customization and options than ever
before. Now, users have the power to use the solution in a way that
makes the most sense for their organizations’ specific use cases and
business structures, reducing overhead and increasing quality.”

Extended automation. The ability to expose the functionality in
Web FASTest via API extends testing automation by allowing other
enterprise systems to make queries concerning available test cards,
schemes by user, profiles and cases that can be executed.

Efficient performance testing. Organizations can more
efficiently conduct performance testing providing graphical display of
statistics in real time, the ability to stop/start testing while a
system is under test (SUT) and automated activation of multiple
connections eliminating the need to manually configure connections.

Single page application (SPA) editing. Web FASTest provides
optimally responsive editing capabilities usually expected in a
desktop application. These advancements allow engineers to use their
time executing test cases rather than performing arduous manual
processes.

Testing with EMV Cards. While users often rely on Paragon’s
powerful soft card technology to design test cases without the
plastic, there are certain use case scenarios where the real card is
required. Now, users can seamlessly acquire a transaction in the test
environment using the plastic card.

Simplify Support Requests. A single click feature in Web
FASTest allows an engineer to capture the most important test
artifacts and forward them with a support request to Paragon, saving
the time typically spent on importing and recreating the support issue.

Advancements to Web FASTest represent Paragon’s latest efforts to
revolutionize payments testing. For more than 20 years, the company has
provided software testing solutions to the world’s leading financial
services brands, including the top six global card brands, the top 50
merchant acquirers, the top 10 payment processors, the top 50 retailers
and the top 300 banks in the world.

Paragon Application Systems is the leading independent provider of
simulation, configuration, certification and end-to-end testing
solutions for the financial services industry. Paragon enables more than
600 financial institutions, major interchanges, software providers and
payment processors across 90 countries to improve their quality and
reduce time to market. The company’s software and services empower
financial services organizations to deliver the services their customers
need when they need them. Visit www.paragonedge.com
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